Just to refresh your memories…..
Tantolina – Tantomile
Old Tom - Admetus
Old Queen – Victoria
Fairy – Cassandra
Father Toad – Alonzo
Fish – Skimbleshanks, Jennyanydots, Jellylorum, Plato
Beetle – Rum Tum Tugger
Beetle's Friends – Quaxo, Pouncival, Tumblebrutus,
Mrs Field Mouse – Munkustrap
Mr Mole – Mungojerrie
Swallow - Jemima
Fairy/Flower King – Coricopat
Fairies – Etcetera, Electra, Demeter, Rumpleteazer
Narrator – Bombalurina
Props, Behind the scenes etc – Asparagus
~TANTOLINA~ PART 2
Tugger has been restrained and the rest of the cats are now back from their 'break' where I managed to lose forty dollars so that they could all go and buy fish eughhhh.
Bombi – Oh me again. Right. Tantolina was crying so damn hard that she woke some fish up. Out come Skimble, Jenny, Jelly and Plato all wearing sequined outfits with what looks like butterfly wings from a past production. Sniggering is heard from the wings. Aren't those butterfly wings from one of out past productions?
Plato – Yeah well, you try finding a costume in that muck of a dressing room!
CT – Back to the story please….
Fish – Gawsh! What is that noise. Fish all simultaneously put their paws to their heads in a 'searching' pose. How inconsiderate to wake us up!
Bombi – They all went in search of the phantom crier….
CT – Bombalurina if I have to tell you one more…
Bombi – OK! They all tried to find the person crying. Is that better?
CT – *Sigh*
Bombi – They saw a beautiful *green* kitten crying her eyes out on a lillypad. When the fish saw how pretty she was they decided to:
Fish – Wow, she's so pretty. We should set her free!
Bombi – So they bit though the stem of the lillypad and let it float away.
Fish – Bye! They try to get off stage but somehow manage to tangle their wings/fins together and are tied together. Asparagus comes onstage and tries to untie them only getting caught up himself. So they waddle offstage in a huge clump.
Bombi – Well, that was interesting. She notices CT's angry glare. But getting back to the story. Tantolina went a long way, past wide green paddocks filled with cows and sheep. Rumpleteazer and Mungojerrie appear in cow and sheep costumes and begin to moo and baa loudly.
CT – Not in the script….. they leave the stage.
Bombi – Suddenly a beetle swooped down and seized Tantolina in his claws.
Tugger – How pretty you are! I shall make you my wife!
Bombi – Tantolina was very frightened but there was nothing she could do.
Tant – Sarcastically Oh help me help me. I've been kidnapped by Tugger. I'm so scared….
Bombi – The beetle set her down on a tree to show his new 'acquisition' to his mates.
Quaxo – How ugly she is!
Tant – Hey!
Pounce – Her waist is so slim!
Tumble – And she only has two legs!
All 3 – She looks horrible!
Tant – Well thankyou very much! I didn't know you felt that way!
Bombi – The beetle decided that he didn't want Tantolina as a wife anymore so he flew her down from the tree and set her on a daisy. Except the daisy broke. So she fell to the ground on her…
CT – Please Bombi! Just stick to the script!
Bombi – Tantolina was very sad. All summer she lived in the forest. She wove herself a bed of grass and hung it under a large leaf to shelter herself from rain. She drank morning dew and ate nectar from the flowers and was perfectly content until winter came. First the leaf that Tantolina lived under shriveled and died and then the flowers all died – damn, no food. She almost froze to death. She was looking for a place to stay when she came across a cottage. She knocked on the door.
Tant – I wonder who lives here? Screaming is heard in the background. Munkustrap is shoved on wearing a wig with curls in it and a dress and a funny looking bonnet. Tugger yells something at him which makes the whole cast crack up.
Munk – When I get my claws on you CT!!!! Hello dear. Come in, come in!
Tant – I have a problem dear Mrs Mouse. I have nowhere to live and I have no food and I am very cold. May I stay with you for a little while.
Munk – Covering his eyes with one paw. If you keep my house clean and tidy, tell me stories and sing for me then you may stay all winter if you want.
Tant – Oh gee! That sounds smashing!
Cori – Smashing?
Tant – Shaddup! It's in the script.
Bombi – One day the field mouse said
Munk – Listen Tantolina, my friend Mr Mole is coming to pay me a visit. He is much richer than I am and has a wonderful er, black coat. But he is blind, so be sure to tell him your best stories ok?"
Tant – Sure Mrs Mouse.
Bombi – The mole showed up the next day.
Jerrie – Jerrie appears wearing a cat sized tuxedo including tails and a top hat. Ello, ello ello! 'Ow are we goin todai?
Bombi - Tantolina did not like him even though he was rich and all. He said dreadful things about the sun and the flowers and birds. However, Tantolina still told her best stories for him and sang all the songs she knew.
Tant – Er, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall….
CT – Aww, c'mon Tant! You know better ones than that!
Tant – It's a small world after allll…. All cats cover their ears in pain.
Bombi – The mole invited Mrs Mouse and Tantolina to come to his home underground.
Jerrie – I woul' be 'onoure' if yous woul' com and visi' me 'ome unda groun'.
Bombi – So the three set out through a tunnel the mole had dug.
Jerrie – Now watch yer step. There's a dead bir' down 'ere. But don' worry bou' 'im. Woi do oi 'av ta wear this stoopid soot CT? It's chokin me!
Teazer – 'Old on luv! She claws at his throat while the rest of the cast watch in horror.
Jerrie – He starts speaking as though he's drunk. Yea' tha' feewls an 'ole lo' betta. Fanks Teaze. He promptly faints.
CT – Oh great! Now we don't have a Mr Mole!
Tugger – BREAK TIME!!!!! All cats stream out leaving Teazer and Jerrie onstage.
CT – Not again!! Following Tugger getting ready to pound him.
Teazer – Hey Jerr! We go' the staige all to ourselves!
Jerrie – Wakes up out of his state of suspended animation and looks at her. Yeah, all to ourselves.
~Finis~ PART TWO